I found a lot of dead links this time. I can only assume that sff.net doesn’t remove domains from their link page once they have been transfered away, or the the domain registration has run out.
One of the things I have decided I feel strongly about is links being plainly marked as to what they are linking to. Although I like the concept of the worldmap with links to various pieces of information, if there are no labels (or even labels only as a tiny popup when you scroll over), and no perceivable logic to what links go where, I would prefer that you didn’t.
Making a site that needs to be “explored” can be fun when well done, but it needs to be well done.
Nice art is nice. Lower-quality art might be worse than no art.
(… so at what point on that scale does my own art land me?)
I can’t help noticing that when I go to writer’s website because it is a *writer’s* website, although I want to know something about that author’s life and interests, I nonetheless find it off-putting if a substantial portion of that website is filled with stuff that is not writing related. It feels… unprofessional?
On the other paw, I was looking at one website and thinking that it was so “professional” that it lacked any sort of personality.
Why do I dislike people telling me they are bestselling or that they have won awards so much? I don’t mind it when its on other people’s websites, the publisher, the agent… just when it’s on the author’s own page.
Why do people have links to “cover art” with everything we need to know about the book the cover art appeared on there beside the cover art, instead of links to books, with images of the cover art there beside the book info. Do they think people are more likely to be interested in the artwork than the books?
Sometimes they have both cover art and book links, and I’m a bit unsure what the difference is.